Imtiaz Ali announces new film with Sharvari, Vedang Raina, Diljit Dosanjh, and Naseeruddin Shah; set for Baisakhi 2026 release

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Imtiaz Ali, the filmmaker known for redefining romance and emotional storytelling in Indian cinema, is set to return to the director’s chair with an untitled project that promises to be a moving tale of love, longing, and identity. Slated for release on Baisakhi 2026, the film will begin shooting in August 2025. Bringing together a compelling blend of talent, the film stars Diljit Dosanjh, Naseeruddin Shah, Vedang Raina, and Sharvari in lead roles. With a contemporary and witty narrative that explores the emotional complexities of human connection, the project is expected to resonate deeply with audiences. Imtiaz’s Signature Blend of Soulful Storytelling Returns Imtiaz Ali continues his tradition of crafting emotionally rich stories grounded in reality and lyricism. The upcoming film, he says, “has a big heart,” and is “set on a large canvas, yet very personal.” "It is a story of a boy and a girl," he shared, "but also a country." He further reflected on the film’s...
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Bad City review – retro homage to 80s Japanese thrillers is elegantly pulpy

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A taskforce of honest cops is assembled to tackle the gangsters menacing Kaiko City. Many punches are thrown in choreographed style

Director Kensuke Sonomura started off as a stunt performer and coordinator, so it’s no surprise that his second directorial effort contains lashings of hand-to-hand combat. Indeed, just as the climactic cops v gangsters showdown is about to kick off, elderly lawman Torada (Hitoshi Ozawa) urges everyone not to use silly, unsporting guns, and miraculously both sides agree and go to it with fists and knives. It’s just as well because, hitherto, almost every time someone has fired a gun in anger in this film they have missed the target. Does that mean all those movies where folks hit their target with one bullet are lying? Or is this one, where everyone is pants at shooting, the misrepresentation? Either way, it’s almost enough to make you question your core beliefs in the efficacy of cinematic firearms.

Anyway, if you like watching actors and stunt folk battle it out, this is great stuff but the connecting plot strung between fights is more of a chore. In fictional Japanese metropolis Kaiko City, corruption is rife and it all seems to stem from Wataru Gojo (Lily Franky) who has designs on redeveloping a poor part of the city. As Gojo is announcing his bid to become Kaiko’s mayor, we see a bathhouse of lushly tattooed yakuza get wiped out by a single long-haired squinting assassin (Tak Sakaguchi). Is he working for Madam (Rino Katase), queenpin of the Korean mafia in Kaiko, who rather entertainingly dresses like someone trying to shoplift all the stock from a Versace boutique at the same time. The chief prosecutor and his assistant put together a taskforce of honest cops from the Violent Crimes unit, and place Torada in charge, even though up until now he’s been in jail on charges that connect him to Madam.

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